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So I came across a need to Forward a port from one windows machine to another windows machine and found a nice solution using netsh and port proxies. In this example I will use port proxies to forward a Remote Desktop Port 3389 (RDP) from one server to another to allow access to this server via RDP by connecting to a local port like localhost:5000.

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Quick Note: This will temporarily set the Environment path with in that shell. If you want a more permanent solution you will have to added through windows environment variables config then logoff and back in.

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I came across this one today while working on a new set up of TFS 2015. I created a Team Porject as a test and found that it could not be deleted. So we stumbled across an alternative way of deleting the project without having to sign into the actual application server.

Run this from admin command prompt where your Visual Studio is install:

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If you are a windows power user like myself, or you just are annoyed with User Account Control’s (UAC) pop ups and access restrictions especially in the later versions of Windows (8-10) here is the surefire way to disable UAC.

Note: These methods will work on Windows 7 – Windows 10.

Method 1 (Regedit):

Open Windows Registry Editor (regedit) as Admin

Powershell way

press windows key + r to get the windows run prompt

enter this powershell command and hit enter, select ok on any UAC prompt

powershell Start-Process regedit -Verb runas

Simple Way

press the windows key and type in regedit

In the search results right click on regedit and select run as administrator